RISING FOILED

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21553, 26 July 1933, Page 9

RISING FOILED

UNREST IN SPAINHUNDREDS OF ARRESTS ANTI-GOVERNMENT PLOT REDS AND MONARCHISTS POLICE ACT PROMPTLY By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright (Received July 25. 5.5 p.m.) MADRID, July 25 Five hundred people, including a number of women, have been arrested throughout Spain as the result of tho discovery of a widespread anti-Govern-ment plot. Intense activity on the part of the police foiled the design, which was to cause a rising by Fascists, Monarchists, syndicalists and Anarchists. The police were busy all day yesterday raiding the residences of suspects, who included lawyers, journalists, students, priests and politicians. Two priests were arrested in Granada. They were saying Mass when tho police arrived and were allowed to continue the celebration, after which they surrendered. Unrest has been prevalent in the south, particularly in Seville, for some days. Communists' meetings havo been banned and syndicalist Labour organisations have been , suppressed in several other cities. Tho premature explosion of a bomb near Cadiz oil Sunday night is believed to have aroused the suspicions of the authorities. Sixty-three of the 117 people arrested in Madrid wero taken immediately to the penal settlement of Ocana. It is believed that Anarchists had prepared a violent movement as a protest against tho severe law dealing with public order, which Parliament now is debating. The Monarchists no doubt took advantage of the opportunity to attempt to overthrow the Republic. The trial has been begun in Barcelona of 42 Communists charged with participation in tho revolutionary movement at Tarassa 18 months' ago. The prosecution is demanding life sentences. DRASTIC MEASURES GOVERNMENT ALERT SENTENCED REVOLUTIONARIES Times Cable LONDON, July 24 The Madrid correspondent of the Times states that the Spanish Government is having representatives of various classes of society arrested, closing tvorkmen's associations and causing newspaper offices to be rifled. The authorities havo armed the police of the principal towns with muskets, apparently fearing an outbreak when the sentences on those concerned in the revolutions of August, 1932, were notified. These sentences included General Perez, 22 years; Cavalcanti, 10 years; four other officers, 20 years; and 10 others shorte.r periods. Twelve were liberated.